Useful Links
This page contains links to various web sites which have proven to be interesting, useful, perhaps even invaluable. Each link is followed by a brief description, comment, or suggestion.
Link Collections and Search Engines | |
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| http://www.websher.net/inx/icdefault1.htm | Sher's Russian Index - by far the largest collection of well-organized links. |
| http://www.rambler.ru/ | Rambler - one of the best Russian search engines. |
| http://www.yandex.ru/ | Yandex - another one of the best Russian search engines. |
Language Links | |
| http://www.gramota.ru/ | A portal leading to many valuable dictionaries and other reference works. On the upper right corner of the home page, it is easy to look up a word in ten or more dictionaries. |
| http://starling.rinet.ru/morph.htm | Provides a word's morphology and accent. |
Literature, Culture, People | |
| http://www.bards.ru/ | Bards.ru - a huge archive of downloadable music files; Vysotsky, Okudzhava, Galich, many, many more. |
| Eisenstein | Site from Carleton College devoted to the film director Sergei Eisenstein. |
| http://www.film.ru/sk-news/article.asp?ID=437 | Film.ru - portal to the Russian Union of Cinematographers. |
| http://www.klassika.ru/ | Klassika.ru - Electronic Library of Classical Literature; poetry and prose with popularity ratings. |
| http://lib.ru/ | Lib.ru - Maksim Moshkow's library of Russian literature in digital form. |
| http://www.museum.ru/pushkin/ | Pushkin Museum in Moscow. |
| https://www.filmdoo.com/distributor/ruscico | Ruscico - Russian Cinema Council. Keeps track of the remastering and publication of classics of Russian cinema. |
| http://feb-web.ru/index.htm | Russian Literature and Folklore. A great site. |
| http://www.ruthenia.ru/sovlit/ind_pipl.html | SovLit - Soviet Literature: Texts, Bibliography, Research. Prof. Galushkin in Moscow. |
News, Politics, Current Events | |
| http://www.gazeta.ru/ | Gazeta.ru - A popular news site. |
| http://lenta.ru/oddly/ | Lenta.ru - Latest news from the Rambler Media Group. |
| http://www.polit.ru/news/index.html | Polit.ru - breaking news as it unfolds. |
| http://www.vesti.ru/ | Vesti.ru - news, lots of video and photos. |
Curiosities | |
| http://www.tolkien.ru/ | Tolkien.ru - for Russian Tolkien devotees. Chat rooms, discussions, links. |